Samsung's NC20 netbook: the predictable successor to the NC10

Samsung's NC10 netbook has barely been out long enough to get a footing in the market, and already we're learning of its natural successor. The NC20 (likely not pictured) will reportedly hit the ground running in February, and with it will come a 1.3GHz VIA Nano U225 processor, a 12.1-inch display, 160GB hard drive, 1GB of RAM, Bluetooth 2.0, 802.11b/g WiFi, Ethernet, a 3-in-1 card reader and a 1.3-megapixel camera. The 3.3-pound machine is expected to launch at around $642, which -- quite honestly -- sounds a touch on the high side to us. Who knows though, maybe that sticker includes a secondary display that we're just not privy to yet.

[Thanks, Faber]

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 8th 2009 11:41AM]

Ok the Nano is not a typical Netbook processor. This is not your fathers Atom, highlights include:

64 Bit Support. Virtualization Extensions,etc. , and 2x the performance of the VIA C7-M. All this in under 8 watts (for the 1.3ghz model)
VIA originally designed these processors for the embedded and lowend PC market.
It seems that everyone is just following Intel's reference design and Applefying there exterior.
It'd be nice if Dell'd make a Nano based Netbook, that'd be awesome. Or, if HP would make a Nano Based 2133.
Something with NVIDIA or ATI graphics, Gigabit ethernet and Wimax/3G onboard.

It is unfortunate that Fujitsu isn't turning out the chips fast enough. :-(